Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke.

I s'pose that's what I get for trying to make everything have a double meaning. In this case I meant exactly what I said - it arranged into ULTIMATELY but I thought you might have found something else besides.

But getting back to speaking in riddles - we move from my ULTIMATELY to your FINALITY.
I'm right on your TRAIL, MEN.

That could be the TERMINAL to a TRAMLINE. A tram, if you've not come across one before, is what you'd call a trolley car in the US.

I'm writing an SF novel about travelling to an ANTIPROTON STAR.

I like ANTIPROTON STAR! If there were an anti-wormhole in the center, that might provide an unexpected means of interstellar TRANSPORTATION !

Until we find that we'll just have to be content with what's available. All this rush to get from here to there in a hurry is arousing SNAIL IRE.

If the AIRLINES were subject to an AILERON TAX we'd be able to sit back in our seats and rest.

Can you achieve real RELAXATION if you live in a TITE DOMAIN?

Your MEDITATION might involve a COMPLAINT NOTE for your navel.

On CONTEMPLATION, ORC REFINEMENT seems contradictory, and even more.

REINFORCEMENT? I think I'd take a ROGUE CANE to such behaviour!

ENCOURAGE! but just don't do a BONE MELD

EMBOLDEN

Well, after all, it's only a small step from LEMON BED to SOUR MUPPETS, U...

Excuse my long absence. Must have been the emetic pears I washed down with some nifty ail last week...

I've heard the students at SOUR MUPPETS U are not at all PRESUMPTUOUS. The school was built near the TIDE TUNNEL to serve these folks....

What do you mean UNENTITLED? Have you been GIVEN REDS?

DESERVING? Of course! We even got a medal for our RIO E-TOURISM service !

That's MERITORIOUS! This milk is used in a PRIZED SAUTÉ.

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This milk is used in a PRIZED SAUTÉ.

PASTEURIZED

...using only FINEST DICED ingredients, I would presume.

Are you sure it's completely DISINFECTED, O HOUSE GNOME?

HOMOGENEOUS? Looks all the same to me.

As opposed to flinging the ingredients into the wind, where eventually they'll be found by a DESERT CAT.

If it's SCATTERED let's hope it's not too SEMI-NOOSE by now.

Opportunity missed - your clue would be met by NOISOME, but the closest I can get to it is NOISESOME. Not the same thing.

I'll keep working on it.

(Edit: Or maybe it is the same thing, although my searches mostly suggest it's an alternative (mis)spelling of NOISOME.)

That's a polite way of saying 'You idiot, you can't spell", isn't it?

It was intended to be NOISOME but I can't spell it! Try this instead: Maybe his RAVAGED TIE has several colours.

VARIEGATED.....well at least he didn't RIP & UPROOT you for a mere typo...

POTPOURRI ! Haven't smelled that for a long time.

You did that with amazing GRACE, FRAN

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That's a polite way of saying 'You idiot, you can't spell", isn't it?

No, no, au contraire, mon chou. You must know the regard in which we hold you. When you're not looking we think of you as a sort of Archibald Grosvenor, as in "Archibald the All-right." (Never mind the poetry...) So I must be the one mistaken, and "noisesome" can't be the rearrangement you had in mind.

FRAGRANCE? Not IF it's a SOUR RODEO

You think that's ODORIFEROUS? Have you ever smelled TACOMA, R.I. ?

Speaking of AROMATIC, I like the smell of a SAUCY LETUP.

EUCALYPTUS is distinctive. Other aromas are also enticing if taken in a NON-MANIC way (often with baked goods).

CINNAMON! & another aromatic (OH, I PUT CAL up to this one.)

PATCHOULI is an essential oil. With much ADO AND SLOW progress we get another.

I guess I'm not up on my essential oils. All I can make of that is WOOD'N SALAD. Or maybe (with a little imagination) a harpsichordist or two - WANDA LANDOWSKA

Oh, pooh. SANDALWOOD !


If I've spelled it right, take a voyage on the S.S. AS FAR AS.

SASSAFRAS.

A scientist may have to EXPLAIN METRE to non-experts.

EXPERIMENTAL

Well that's one way to test HOT RYE !

Oh....THEORY huh? You still need statistics or you are just being flown around by a Random RABBITY PILOT

I think you may have TONED MUSIC. There's only one T in PROBABILITY. (Unless perhaps you take it at 4 P.M.)

You got it, typo and all.

Maybe he MISCOUNTED-- or does he really have SEX DAILY?

Is it DYSLEXIA or GILL's BEDPAN? (Two words)

BAD SPELLING is not the responsibility of his brother Aaron, who tries to get out if the situation somehow in a TEXAS TRICE.

If he EXTRICATES himself he's quite likely to have DRAPED SEPIA.

Now you see it...and now it's DISAPPEARED.

And speaking of appearing, I was disappointed by that new Chinese restaurant. The RICE DOME is only so-so. (And stepping back a bit - where did it YET GLOOMY come from?)

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The ETYMOLOGY of the RICE DOME is probably quite MEDIOCRE.

like taking a ride in a RAIN DORY

That's pretty ORDINARY.

Which might give rise to FICTION'S STADIAS.

FICTION'S STADIAS = DISSATISFACTION

Which is sad, especially if you're a...well, let's just say you need TACT 'N LEMON.

I think two weeks is long enough to declare No Vote.

Just as long as no one becomes a MALCONTENT.

I declare a SENTOP MENTOP, duration to be determined.

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SENTOP MENTOP

What a felicitous couple of words! It sounds like the beginning of one of those nonsense rhymes:

Sentop, mentop,
My son Cop
Pentop, moptop
Away he'd hop.

POSTPONEMENT is an anticlimax, not the last for the NUTMEAT PILE.

PENULTIMATE. I finally figured it out. Well, almost.

Not that I want to make more of it than it is, but have you met the P-FAMILY ?

AMPLIFY.

Put a TREE HOYDEN through the mixer?

That's be HERETODYNE. Do you suppose we could get that little radio up the TORN STAIRS ?

HETERODYNE, but that was obviously a typo. A TRANSISTOR is a good example of CLIENT SCORE.

Oops. Typo, or dyslexia. Or inattention. I'm going from bad to worse, here. Better quit while I'm still ahead.

I'm a cardiologist; do you think I'd be able to hear any of these ELECTRONICS devices without my A.C.C. HOLE?